And as usual, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!

Enjoy and good luck.

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Q. 1: Who was assassinated at the theater by John Wilkes Booth?

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Q. 2: What is the most abundant substance found in the plant kingdom?

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Q. 3: What well known city in the Far East is known as ‘The Lion City’ ?

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Q. 4: Who discovered the law that the volume of a given mass of gas at a constant temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure?

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Q. 5: What type of creature is a Pacific sea wasp?

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Q. 6: Which of Napoleon’s victories had a chicken dish named after it?

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Q. 7: In which country is the port of Fray Bentos?

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Q. 8: What was the name of the English galleon best known for her circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake?

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Q. 9: English novelist John Meade Falkner, not to be confused with the famous American author John Faulkner, published three novels. ‘The Nebuly Coat’ was one of them, you get a point for each of the other two you can name correctly and two bonus points if you get both of them correct.

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Q. 10: What are the only two numbers on a dartboard to lie between two odd ones?

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Q. 11: What wind is a warm southerly coming from the Sahara Desert over the Mediterranean?

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Q. 12: What is the largest flat fish species?

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Q. 13: Which Washington D.C. born oscar-winning actress wrote ‘A Lotus Grows in the Mud’ ?

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Q. 14: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played 20 seasons in which sport?

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Q. 15: What item of clothing was named after its Scottish inventor?

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Q. 16: On which continent would you find the world’s most ancient forest?

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Q. 17: Bray Studios, near Windsor in Berkshire, England was home to which famous brand of horror films?

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Q. 18: Which kind of flower bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency?

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Q. 19: Name the three primary colors.

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Q. 20: What was the name of the song performed by Eton John, a revised version of which became a mega-hit after being sung live by Elton at Princess Diana’s funeral? A bonus point if you can also correctly name the sub-title given to the latter version.

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ANSWERS

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Q. 1: Who was assassinated at the theater by John Wilkes Booth?

A. 1: Abraham Lincoln.

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Q. 2: What is the most abundant substance found in the plant kingdom?

A. 2: Cellulose.

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Q. 3: What well known city in the Far East is known as ‘The Lion City’ ?

A. 3: Singapore.

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Q. 4: Who discovered the law that the volume of a given mass of gas at a constant temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure?

A. 4: Robert Boyle.

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Q. 5: What type of creature is a Pacific sea wasp?

A. 5: It is a Jellyfish.

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Q. 6: Which of Napoleon’s victories had a chicken dish named after it?

A. 6: Marengo.

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Q. 7: In which country is the port of Fray Bentos?

A. 7: In the South American country Uruguay.

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Q. 8: What was the name of the English galleon best known for her circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake?

A. 8: It was the Golden Hind or Golden Hinde.

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Q. 9: English novelist John Meade Falkner, not to be confused with the famous American author John Faulkner, published three novels. ‘The Nebuly Coat’ was one of them, you get a point for each of the other two you can name correctly and two bonus points if you get both of them correct.

A. 9: They are ‘The Lost Stradivarius’ and ‘Moonfleet’.

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Q. 10: What are the only two numbers on a dartboard to lie between two odd ones?

A. 10: 3 and 19 (there is a run of four odd numbers around the bottom – 17,3,19,7, nowhere else is there a run of more than 2 consecutive odd or even numbers).

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Q. 11: What wind is a warm southerly coming from the Sahara Desert over the Mediterranean?

A. 11: Sirocco.

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Q. 12: What is the largest flat fish species?

A. 12: Halibut.

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Q. 13: Which Washington D.C. born oscar-winning actress wrote ‘A Lotus Grows in the Mud’ ?

A. 13: Goldie Hawn.

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Q. 14: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played 20 seasons in which sport?

A. 14: Basketball.

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Q. 15: What item of clothing was named after its Scottish inventor?

A. 15: A mackintosh.

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Q. 16: On which continent would you find the world’s most ancient forest?

A. 16: In Australia specifically Daintree Forest, north of Cairns.

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Q. 17: Bray Studios, near Windsor in Berkshire, England was home to which famous brand of horror films?

A. 17: Hammer Horror.

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Q. 18: Which kind of flower bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency?

A. 18: Tulips.

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Q. 19: Name the three primary colors.

A. 19: Red, yellow and blue.

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Q. 20: What was the name of the song performed by Eton John, a revised version of which became a mega-hit after being sung live by Elton at Princess Diana’s funeral? A bonus point if you can also correctly name the sub-title given to the latter version.

A. 20: It was ‘Candle in the wind’. For your bonus point the sub-title for the revised version was ‘Goodbye England’s Rose’.